Glomerulophoron | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Arthoniomycetes |
Order: | Arthoniales |
Family: | Arthoniaceae |
Genus: |
Glomerulophoron Frisch, Ertz & G.Thor (2015) |
Type species | |
Glomerulophoron mauritiae Frisch, Ertz & G.Thor (2015)
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Species | |
Glomerulophoron is a small genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Arthoniaceae. [1] [2] The genus contains two species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichens. It was circumscribed in 2015 by the lichenologists Andreas Frisch, Damien Ertz, and Göran Thor. It was created to contain a single species from Mauritius, G. mauritiae, which was distinct from the similar genus Sporodophoron both genetically and morphologically, in the tightly coiled chains of sporodochial conidia. [3] The genus gained another member in 2024 when the Brazilian species G. confluentisorediatum was added to it. It is distinguished from the type species by the absence of sporodochia. [4]
Glomerulophoron | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Arthoniomycetes |
Order: | Arthoniales |
Family: | Arthoniaceae |
Genus: |
Glomerulophoron Frisch, Ertz & G.Thor (2015) |
Type species | |
Glomerulophoron mauritiae Frisch, Ertz & G.Thor (2015)
| |
Species | |
Glomerulophoron is a small genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Arthoniaceae. [1] [2] The genus contains two species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichens. It was circumscribed in 2015 by the lichenologists Andreas Frisch, Damien Ertz, and Göran Thor. It was created to contain a single species from Mauritius, G. mauritiae, which was distinct from the similar genus Sporodophoron both genetically and morphologically, in the tightly coiled chains of sporodochial conidia. [3] The genus gained another member in 2024 when the Brazilian species G. confluentisorediatum was added to it. It is distinguished from the type species by the absence of sporodochia. [4]